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US4783787A
US4783787A US06/871,038 US87103886A US4783787A US 4783787 A US4783787 A US 4783787A US 87103886 A US87103886 A US 87103886A US 4783787 A US4783787 A US 4783787A
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  • This invention relates to means for attenuating the power of a laser beam in a laser-operated medical treatment device which is used, for instance, as a laser knife.
  • a Co 2 laser beam and an Nd-YAG laser beam are generally employed for a laser-operated medical treatment device which utilizes the thermal energy of a laser beam.
  • an Nd-YAG laser is extensively employed because its beam is effectively transmitted through the flexible optical fiber transmitting the laser output.
  • a contact type medical treatment has been put into practice in which a transparent sapphire member is attached to the end of the optical fiber receiving the beam from an Nd-YAG laser, and the diseased part is cut or congealed with the end of the sapphire member held in contact therewith.
  • the transparent sapphire member is brought into direct contact with the diseased part as was described above, and therefore reflection and scattering of the laser beam at the diseased part are suppressed. Accordingly, in the contact type medical treatment, medical treatment can be carried out with low laser power and the effect is greater than with the same power in a non-contact type medical treatment.
  • the non-contact type medical treatment requires a laser power of more than 30 W, while in the contact type medical treatment the same effect can be obtained with a laser power which is about one-third (1/3) of this value.
  • the Nd-YAG laser beam should have a high power of the order of 100 W. Accordingly, in order to use an Nd-YAG laser beam generator as a general-purpose laser beam generator, the Nd-YAG laser beam generator should be able to generate a laser beam in a range of from a low output of several watts to a high output of 100 W or higher.
  • an object of this invention is to eliminate the above-described difficulties accompanying a conventional laser beam generating device.
  • an object of the invention is to provide a general purpose laser beam generating device which can provide a laser beam over a range extending from a low output power to a high output power.
  • a laser beam generating device of the invention has been developed by using the approach that a high power laser beam is provided by a laser beam generator.
  • the laser beam is used as it is.
  • part of the laser beam is periodically intercepted by a light intercepting unit. Therefore, in the invention, a light intercepting unit for mechanically intercepting the laser beam at a predetermined rate is caused to go in and out of the optical path of the laser beam.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first example of a laser beam generating device according to this invention.
  • FIGS. 2A and 2B are front view of one example of a light intercepting unit in the device of the invention, showing the two different states of the unit.
  • FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the laser beam generating device of FIG. 1 in which a high output mode is selected.
  • FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a second example of the laser beam generating device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first example of a laser beam generating device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows one example of a light intercepting unit 10 in FIG. 1.
  • a laser generator 11 is energized by the output power of a power source unit 12, to thereby generate a laser beam.
  • the laser beam thus generated is applied through a condenser lens system 13 to the incident end face of a laser fiber 14, which is used, for instance, for laser-based medical treatment.
  • a beam splitter 15 is arranged in the optical path between the laser generator 11 and the condenser lens system 13, to split the laser beam into two parts.
  • One of the two parts is applied to the condenser lens system 13 as was described above, and the other part is applied to an output detector 16.
  • the output of the detector 16, after being amplified by an amplifier 17, is applied to an arithmetic circuit 18.
  • the output of an output adjusting unit 19 is also applied to the arithmetic circuit 18.
  • the arithmetic circuit 18 compares the output of the output detector 16 with the output of the output adjusting unit 19, and calculate the difference between them.
  • the difference of the comparison is applied through an amplifier 20 to a addition circuit 21, to which the output of the output adjusting unit 19 is applied.
  • the output of the addition unit 21 controls the power source unit 12.
  • the addition circuit 21 controls the power source unit 12 according to the sum between the output of the arithmetic circuit 18 and the output of the output adjusting unit 19. That is, with the aid of the above-described feedback system, the laser beam generator 11 is driven by the power source unit 12 so that the intensity of the generated laser beam becomes an output value set by the output adjusting unit 19.
  • an output of the output adjusting unit 19 is applied through an attenuator 23 to a display unit 24, or applied directly to the display unit 24.
  • the light intercepting unit 10 is so provided that it can go in and out of the laser beam between the laser beam generator 11 and the condenser lens system 13. More specifically, the light intercepting unit 10, as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, comprises a rotary disc 25 and four light intercepting plates 27 arranged on the periphery of the rotary disc 25 at angular intervals of 90°. Two of the light intercepting plates 27 are disposed on the front side of the rotary disc and the other two light intercepting plates 27 are disposed on the back side. Each of the light intercepting plates 27 is pivotally mounted on a respective pin 26 embedded in the rotary disc 25 so that the light intercepting plate 27 can swing about the pin 26 outwardly and inwardly of the outer circumference of the rotary disc 25.
  • the light intercepting plates 27 are held inside the rotary disc 25 by tension springs 28 as shown in FIG. 2B.
  • the speed of the rotary disc 25 reaches a predetermined value, i.e., the centrifugal force applied thereto reaches a certain value
  • the light intercepting plates 27 are caused to swing outside the outer circumference of the rotary disc 25 as shown in FIG. 2A.
  • a stopper disc 29 regulates the swing-in positions of the light intercepting plates 27, and, as shown in FIG. 2A, stopper pins regulate the swing-out positions of the plates 27.
  • the light intercepting plates 27 When the light intercepting plates 27 are swung to the swing-out positions, they project into the laser beam path. Under this condition, a rotational gap 31 is formed between adjacent light interception plates 27 as shown in FIG. 2A.
  • the ratio of the total circumferential length of the gaps 31 to the total circumferential length of the light intercepting plates is preferably about 1:4.
  • the rotary disc 25 is rotated by a drive motor 33 which is connected through an operating switch (or a high and low change-over switch) 34 to a power source unit 35.
  • the operating switch 34 is operated in association with the aforementioned high and low change-over switch 22.
  • a low output mode can be selected by causing the armatures of the switches 22 and 34 to take the low output positions, i.e., by connecting the contact 22a to the contact 22b in the operating switch 22 and by connecting the contact 34a to the contact 34b in the change-over switch 34.
  • the drive motor 33 is energized to rotate the rotary disc 25.
  • the speed of the rotary disc 25 reaches the predetermined value, the light intercepting plates 27 project into the laser beam path as was described above.
  • a part of the laser beam applied from the laser beam generator 11 to the condenser lens system 13 is mechanically intercepted so that the intensity of the laser beam incident on the condenser lens system 13 is decreased.
  • the ratio of the total circumferential length of the gaps 31 to the total circumferential length of the light intercepting plates is 1:4 in the described embodiment. Therefore, the chopping action of the light intercepting plates 27, caused by the rotation of the rotary disc 25, decreases the output of the laser beam generator 11 to one-fifth (1/5) its unattenuated value, and the output thus decreased is applied to the laser fiber 14. For instance, when the output of the laser beam generator 11 is 100 W, the output is decreased to 20 W, and when the output is 10 W, it is decreased to 2 W. The output decreased in this manner is applied to the condenser lens system 13.
  • the attenuator 23 has an attenuation corresponding to the aforementioned ratio.
  • the attenuator 23 attenuates the set output of the output adjusting unit 19 to one-fifth (1/5) its unattenuated value, and the output thus attenuated is displayed on the output display unit 24.
  • a value equivalent to the output value of the laser beam which has been attenuated by the light intercepting unit 10 is displayed on the output display unit 24.
  • a high output mode is selected by operating the high and low change-over switch 22 and the operating switch 34 in such a manner that the contact 22a is connected to the contact 22c in the operating switch 22 while the contact 34a is connected to the contact 34c in the change-over switch 34, as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the drive motor 33 is electrically disconnected from the power source unit 35, and therefore the rotary disc 25 is not rotated.
  • the set output of the output adjusting unit 29 is displayed directly on the output display unit 24. Accordingly, the light intecepting plates 27 of the light intercepting unit 10 are retracted inside the rotary disc 25 by the elastic force of the tension springs 28 as shown in FIG. 2B. Therefore, the laser beam outputted by the laser beam generator 11 is not mechanically attenuated; that is, it is applied directly through the condenser lens system 13 to the laser fiber 14.
  • Insertion of the light intercepting unit 10 in the laser beam path in front of the beam splitter as described above has the advantage that a conventional monitoring device can be utilized, as it is, for detecting and processing the monitor signal (or laser beam) provided by the beam splitter 15.
  • FIG. 4 shows a second example of the laser beam generating device according to the invention.
  • the second example employs a light intercepting unit 10 in which the light intercepting plates 27 are fixed to the rotary disc 25 as shown in FIG. 2A and do not move outwards.
  • a drive unit 40 causes the entire light intercepting unit 10 to move in the illustrated vertical direction, in and out of the laser beam path, as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the other elements of the second example are the same as those which have been shown in FIGS. 1 and 3.
  • a purality of light intercepting units 10 different in the ratio of the total circumferential length of the gaps 31 to that of the light intercepting plates 27 are provided.
  • the light intercepting units 10 are caused to go in and out of the laser beam path, one at a time, by the respective drive units 40, as a result of which the laser beam is attenuated with different attenuation factors. That is, not only two output modes, namely, the high and low output modes, can be obtained but also additional output modes between the high and low output modes.
  • the light intercepting unit is caused to go in and out of the laser beam path to mechanically intercept a part of the laser beam generated. Accordingly, the intensity of the laser beam outputted can be controlled readily, and even in the low output mode the laser beam output is stably maintained. Therefore, if the device of the invention is applied to a laser-operated medical treatment device, then a high laser output can be obtained for a non-contact medical treatment, and a stable low laser output can be provided in the contact medical treatment which is carried out with a transparent sapphire member attached to the fiber emergent end face.

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